CAMELLIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does camellia mean? • CAMELLIA (noun)
The noun CAMELLIA has 1 sense:
1. any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers
Familiarity information: CAMELLIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CAMELLIA (noun)
Meaning:
Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
camelia; camellia
Hypernyms ("camellia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camellia"):
Camellia japonica; japonica (greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers; cultivated in many varieties)
Holonyms ("camellia" is a member of...):
genus Camellia (tropical Asiatic evergreen shrubs or small trees)
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